The Drop | WembyMania Runnin' Wild, Best & Worst From First NBA Week, Trends To Watch

Summary

No Dunks Podcast | The Drop | WembyMania Runnin' Wild, Best & Worst From First NBA Week, Trends To Watch

Date: October 31, 2025
Hosts: Jay Skeets, Tas Melis, Trey Kirby, JD (Super Producer)
Length: ~78 mins
Theme: The No Dunks crew jump into the first week and a half of the 2025-26 NBA season, sharing surprises, revising preseason predictions, spotlighting trends, and having fun with the league’s latest stories.

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode of The Drop centers on early impressions from the first NBA week, with a focus on the surging San Antonio Spurs and the phenomenon of "WembyMania" around Victor Wembanyama. The hosts dig into surprising performances, re-think preseason picks, investigate notable league trends, and, with their trademark humor, highlight the best and worst moments thus far. The episode also offers rapid-fire fun, playful costume talk for Halloween, and offbeat banter about hair mishaps and more.

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Highlights & Key Discussion Points

1. Opening Vibes & Housekeeping (01:36–04:34)

• Halloween Energy: Hosts enter in high spirits—Trey Kirby sports a pickle costume with a Dirk Nowitzki jersey ("Gurk Nowitzki").
• Production Props: Praise for JD’s solo production work:

  "Other shows with 20 people aren’t doing what you’re doing right there in a goddamn garage." – Jay Skeets (02:44)

• Substack Plug: Announcement of a director’s commentary dropping on their Substack.

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2. Early Season Surprises (04:34–10:52)

Bam Adebayo’s Evolution (05:29)

• Increased 3-point shooting:

  “He’s shooting seven threes a game... didn’t think Bam had it in him, but he’s super confident.” – Tas Melis (05:29)

• Offensive overhaul:

  “It’s the above the break ones that are a problem for Bam, but he’s knocking them down from the corner... they completely revamped their offense and somehow it’s working.” – Trey Kirby (07:30)

Jaime Jaquez Jr. Bounceback (08:09)

• Big leap for the Heat’s young wing; described as “back” after a tough rookie year.

Unexpected Miami Depth (09:08)

• Deep rotation, including recent additions like Pelle Larson and shooters like Fontecchio.

Bucks Win Without Giannis (10:02)

• Ryan Rollins' breakout (10:03):

  “Ryan Rollins... career high 32 points... including a dirty step back on Jimmy Butler to ice the game.” – Jay Skeets (10:03)

• Rollins as revelation: Labeled as “Rawlin’s sanity” and compared to the "Linsanity" run.
• Doc Rivers’ coaching:

  “Doc gets more out of lesser players sometimes than he does out of really great players.” – Trey Kirby (12:15)

• Giannis Halloween costume: Wore a minions costume to the arena (14:19).
• Rollins’ Halloween plan:

  “Blade. Light skinned Blade is what he said.” – Jay Skeets (13:30)

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3. Regretted Preseason Predictions (15:50–22:03)

• Bucks Under Pick: Regretted as Milwaukee exceeds expectations despite injuries (16:02).
• Kings Over: All hosts bemoan picking Sacramento over—they "don’t look connected" and vibes are “just terrible” (16:23–17:43).
• Mavs Over Issues: Jason Kidd’s lineups, early chemistry woes (18:14).
• Pelicans: Zion playing but team losing, “locker room that can turn it around” in doubt (19:21).
• Spurs Under: Both Skeets and Kirby admit they “tried to throw cold water on the Wemby hype,” but SA’s hot start (5–0) makes them look silly (20:43).
  • “This guy’s not the future, he’s the now—Wembanyama.” – Jay Skeets (20:44)

Wemby Insanity (22:03+)

• Stefan Castle's leap: 21/6/8/4 last night.
• Sans Jeremy Sohan:

  “He’s bad. He’s a good defensive player, but... it’s not a coincidence they’re playing this well with Sohan out.” – Trey Kirby (24:09)

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4. Notable Trends to Watch (28:41–34:00)

Nuggets’ Fun Factor (28:48)

• Jokic less burdened; Jamal Murray looking his best, new depth (Bruce Brown, Jonas Valanciunas) and improved chemistry after last year’s dysfunction.
  • “Jokic can now just be happy... think about things that make him happy, like horses and stuff.” – Tas Melis (29:55)

Offensive Explosion (30:02)

• 16 40+ point games already; offensive numbers off the charts, defense lagging.
  • “The bottom six defenses in the league... are the bottom six defenses ever (by defensive rating).” – Trey Kirby (30:17)

Full-court Presses (31:21)

• Surge in full-court defense, with Blazers pressing on ~25% of possessions.
  • “Through first week, teams were pressing on nearly 5% of possessions—nearly double from two seasons ago.” – Jay Skeets (32:55)
• Pacers and Thunder are models for this deep rotation and aggressive D.

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5. Struggling Early-Season Players: Cam Stewart Watch (34:10–37:08)

• A rundown of underperformers: Cam Stewart, Derrick White, Dyson Daniels, CJ McCollum, Lou Dort, Cam Johnson, Shane Sharp, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Klay Thompson, and more.
  • “Some of these guys, it doesn’t even matter. Cam Johnson, another guy—it doesn’t matter.” – Trey Kirby (36:12)

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6. Bold Predictions (37:14–43:40)

• Utah keeps Lauri Markkanen (37:36):

  “I’ll say he doesn’t get traded, and keep him around.” – Tas Melis (39:15)

• All four 4–0 teams make the top eight (Thunder, Bulls, Sixers, Spurs):

  “I will say, my bold prediction is that all four... will make the top eight this year.” – Trey Kirby (40:39)

• Cade Cunningham, Cup Cinderella:

  “Cade Cunningham is gonna lead the Pistons to Las Vegas, baby, for a semifinal matchup in the NBA Cup.” – Jay Skeets (43:00)

• Raptors’ Darko on the hot seat: Skeets predicts Raptors coach Darko will be fired within a week (41:15, 42:25).

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7. Worst of the Week—NBA Humiliation & Hijinks (45:42–55:15)

Nominees:

1. Anthony Edwards not knowing Jake LaRavia (46:56):
   • Fan yells “Who is number 12?”; Ant: “That’s what I’m saying.”
2. San Antonio’s stinky Frost Bank Center after NBA YoungBoy concerts (47:56):
   • “Locker rooms are closed for disinfecting... all three times there have been these disinfecting processes.” – Tas Melis (48:57)
   • Jokes about “Lil Dump” as the opening act.
3. Jaylen Brown’s sprayed-on hair controversy (52:52):
   • Black streak left on OG Anunoby’s jersey; Brown jokes about it on Twitch: “‘Code red. They caught me slipping.’ Very, very funny, man.” – Tas Melis (51:46)

Additional Nominations: Lamelo Ball (accidentally kicked ball in Davion Mitchell’s face, fined for flipping off an official), and the Cavs-Nets court-runner seeking a selfie with Donovan Mitchell.

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8. Rapid Fire—Fun & Personal Questions (60:04–74:53)

• Worst hair mishaps: Stories range from shaving disasters to burning eyelashes while lighting a joint (Tas), to catching hair on fire with a Bunsen burner (JD).
• Something you’re finally ready to acknowledge: Skeets admits fear of black bears before camping trip, Tas claims "I'm not a good dancer," JD laments poor studio lighting.
• Slutty male Halloween costumes: Sexy pirate (Trey), Dothraki (Tas), toga (JD).

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Notable Quotes & Moments (w/ Timestamps):

• “He’s showing everybody how to dunk on Wemby. Get him moving. Get him away from the basket.” – Tas Melis on Bam Adebayo (06:38)
• “This guy’s not the future, he’s the now—Wembanyama.” – Jay Skeets (20:44)
• “Rawlin’s sanity works pretty good, actually.” – Trey Kirby, on Ryan Rollins’ breakout (12:15)
• “Doc gets more out of lesser players sometimes than he does out of really great players.” – Trey Kirby (12:15)
• “I’ll say he doesn’t [get traded], keep him around.” – Tas Melis on Lauri Markkanen, Jazz (39:15)
• “I will say my bold prediction is that all four... will make the top eight this year.” – Trey Kirby (40:45)
• “Cade Cunningham is gonna lead the Pistons to Las Vegas, baby, for a semifinal matchup in the NBA Cup.” – Jay Skeets (42:58)
• “Who is number 12? ...That’s what I’m saying.” – Anthony Edwards (46:56)
• “Code red. They caught me slipping.” – Jaylen Brown, joking about his painted hairline (51:46)

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Timestamps for Key Segments:

• 01:36 – 04:34: Banter, intro, Substack promotion
• 04:34 – 10:52: Early season surprises—Bam, Heat, Bucks without Giannis
• 15:50 – 22:03: Regrettable preseason predictions; Spurs & Wemby
• 28:41 – 34:00: Trends to watch—Nuggets’ fun, offense/defense shift, full-court presses
• 34:10 – 37:08: Cam Stewart’s “Struggling” player list
• 37:14 – 43:40: Bold predictions (Utah, undefeated teams, Cade, Raptors hot seat)
• 45:42 – 55:15: Worst of the Week nominees
• 60:04 – 74:53: Rapid Fire—hair mishaps, confessions, Halloween costumes

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Tone & Takeaways

• Energetic, irreverent, knowledgeable: The hosts balance genuine NBA analysis with playful takes and personal stories, making the episode accessible to hardcore fans and casual listeners alike.
• Emphasis on “WembyMania”: The Spurs’ hot start and Victor Wembanyama’s impact are the marquee stories of the season.
• NBA Week 1 is wild: From breakout surprises (Rollins, Bam’s 3s) to historic flops (Pelicans’ D, Kings' malaise), the season is already unpredictable.
• Community & Culture: Inside jokes (“Gurk Nowitzki”), light-hearted bickering, and Halloween spirit infuse the show’s signature camaraderie.

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For New or Absent Listeners

This summary captures the genuine pulse of NBA opening week through rapid, entertaining conversation. You’ll find breakdowns of trends shaping the new season, honest reconsiderations of preseason predictions, quirky NBA headlines, as well as doses of off-court silliness. Whether you’re tuning in for league news, humor, or pure basketball banter, this Drop delivers an engaging start-to-finish recap of the first real week of hoops.

Transcript

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[Tas Melis]

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[Jay Skeets]

Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the no Dunks podcast presented by FanDuel. It's Friday, October 31, 2025. Happy Halloween. I'm Jay Skeets here in the classic factory and alongside me, as always, Tas Melis.

[Tas Melis]

Podcast listeners, this is for you.

[Jay Skeets]

Next to him, it's the Pickle man, Trey Kirby. Hey. Oh, hey, ho. And over yonder, making the magic happen, super producer JD Hello. There he is. Here we are. A pickle costume with a Dirk Nowitzki jersey.

[Trey Kirby]

Gurk Nowitzki.

[Jay Skeets]

Ah, there it is. Yeah, I was struggling to figure it out.

[Tas Melis]

Me too. I was just thinking last name. Couldn't find a pickle pun.

[Trey Kirby]

Yep. Girk.

[Tas Melis]

Nice.

[Jay Skeets]

I like it.

[JD (Super Producer)]

I thought it was because he was so into pickleball.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, it works a lot of different ways.

[Jay Skeets]

Very, very, very good.

[Trey Kirby]

Let's make this one a Vlasic hello.

[Jay Skeets]

To everybody on YouTube. Take a second. Hit the like button. Subscribe Share the show podcast listeners, five star ratings and reviews can I just say JD's kicking ass.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, it's looking great in here.

[Jay Skeets]

It's a one man show doing all of this, guys. I think it gets overlooked. Jd, of course it does. I know.

[JD (Super Producer)]

I say it every day.

[Jay Skeets]

You're a super producer. But it gets overlooked.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, no doubt.

[Jay Skeets]

I know other shows with 20 people on them that aren't doing what you're doing right there in a goddamn garage.

[JD (Super Producer)]

So true. If you notice me, I'm not doing it right though. Right.

[Jay Skeets]

And we have had some issues with camera work. I'm gonna be honest, I did a.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Full show while I was on the show not wearing my glasses and it was. It was difficult.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, well, glasses on today.

[JD (Super Producer)]

And it's a whole new system as well.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. There are people who notice though. They chime in, they throw in the comments and say, tm jd. Damn. Because it looks like this.

[Trey Kirby]

And every time you come on the mic, people are like, more JD on the mic.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

So it's a catch 22.

[Jay Skeets]

It's like he's a little busy right now. Run the show also. This is fun. Short month troll man. Tas Melis, you did lose the short month of October. Our pick them. So you will be in troll costume underneath the desk on Monday. Sorry, Amazon did not deliver my package yesterday.

[Tas Melis]

Right, right. The troll package will be delivered today. I've got a lot of people to blame for my incorrect picks. Oh, Jason Kidd. What are these lineups in Dallas? Don't get it. We'll just stop it there. We'll blame it on Monday from mostly him though. Yeah, for sure.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, so TAS underneath the table on Monday's show when we do NBA weekend winners and losers. I can't wait.

[Tas Melis]

How are we gonna get it? Camera, lights?

[Jay Skeets]

You don't think, James, can we get a GoPro on them or something like that?

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah, yeah. Oh, something like that. I don't have a GoPro, but we can give them something.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. And like, we're gonna take down probably a lot of the Halloween Dec decorations we'll like. We'll open up this table.

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It'll work.

[Trey Kirby]

We'll let you see underneath. See these legs?

[Jay Skeets]

But we do get to kick you a little bit.

[Tas Melis]

Of course. Yeah. Looking forward to it.

[Jay Skeets]

Also, I want to recommend everybody, if you haven't, to go check out the no dunks sub stack. $5 a month, $50 for the year. Help out your boys. But we have something special going up today. A director's commentary cut of us watching a classic starters Halloween episode. The one where we did the Austin Powers theme and we had a guest on an NBA player actually came on. So we like fired it up here and watched it and commented on it and we're going to have that up on Substack today. So that link is in the show notes if you want to go again, subscribe to Substack but let's get into the action today. We're one and a half weeks into the 25, 26 NBA season. So seeing as every team has played between four and six games, we thought it would be fun to tackle a few questions about the start of this season. So my first question task. You can get us going. What has surprised you the most so far?

[Tas Melis]

So many surprises this season. I'm going to start with Bam Adebayo with Miami Heat. I didn't think he had these capabilities. He's been fantastic. He's shooting seven threes a game. It's kind of like everyone talks about. Brook Lopez didn't shoot threes for the beginning of his career. Now this dude is shooting seven threes for the first seven years of his career. Didn't shoot him. Then last year he started to pick it up 2.8 per game. Now he's shooting seven and it just provides so much space for the rest of these guys. We didn't think Bam had it within him, but he's super confident. It's not just from the corner, it's also from above the break. Now is it super efficient? It's league average, which I think is fine. And I think he sort of expanded his game within the paint as well. He looks super confident. You saw against Wembanyama last night, Thursday night, going at Wemby with little pull up shots. The lefty hook, the righty hook. He's totally confident with all his push shots. I don't know what happened this summer. I don't know if it's his relationship with Asia Wilson. Maybe she taught him her skills because she's freaking awesome but could learn a thing or two. Yeah, yeah. Or just the fact that she. He's more comfortable or whatever Eric Spoelstra is doing with that team. Everybody is super confident and it just helps out. Now, again, the efficiency on the two point shots. Not incredibly, not incredibly great. But think about when Tyler Hero comes back. Their best offensive player or Norman Powell who's also up. Their top two offensive players are not there. So Bam gets super more efficient. And again, he was going at Wemby as much as possible, including the dunk on Wemby. He's showing everybody he's showing everybody how to dunk on Wemby. Get him moving. Get. Get him away from the basket.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, that's smart.

[Tas Melis]

Get him straight at him.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, go.

[Tas Melis]

Go at him. Literally. Just go buy him when you can. And that's how you do it. Zion did it to him earlier this year, that kind of thing. But I just start with Bam. He looks. He looks super comfortable out there, and I know it's a loss and they couldn't do it in the fourth quarter. They had like six minutes where they only scored four points. They couldn't get in the paint against Wemby. Understandable. Again, they don't have the best offensive players, so I think Bam has been impressive.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, where are you going?

[Trey Kirby]

Kind of a bummer. I was going to talk about the Heat as well. I actually think the corner threes has been a huge part of Bam actually being a good shooter this year. 47% of his three pointers are coming from the corner. He shooting 47% on those. It's the above the break ones that are a problem for Bam, but he's knocking them down from the corner. Guess what? It's shorter. It's easier. You've already been shooting those shots from the top of the key when you play as a dribble handoff guy. And that's the thing that's cool to me about the Heat is that they completely revamped their offense and somehow it's working. They're currently eighth in offense. Their defense is holding up as well. Third in defense right now. Maybe part of that is no Tyler Hero. The Heat do always seem to play pretty well when Hero goes down for an injury. Just interesting to note, but they look a lot better. I saw a chart going around yesterday that had like a bunch of pie charts describing the way NBA offenses work. It's like you could play ISO, you could play pick and roll, you could play postup. Or I forget what the other one was. Everybody has 50 to 75% pick and roll.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Every team. The Heat are the only team that is 50% ISO. They're just saying, go cook. Whoever has the ball, go cook and kick it out for a three pointer. That's been great for Bam and it's been really great for Jaime Hawkez Jr. He's apparently back 16, 6 and 4 this season, shooting 69% on bear on twos, which is very nice. He looks tough. He looks explosive again. He looks like rookie year Hawkes last year. He was struggling. Couldn't really get in the flow of the offense. Fell in and out of the rotation. But this year it's been a bounce back season and I like what I see from the Heat and I'm kind of surprised because this was a team that played the same way year after year after year after year. Apparently it wasn't working and they found something that is working for now.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, I'm interested to see what happens when Tyler Hero comes back because I think Davion Mitchell has been key to moving that ball and keeping things going. Nikola Jovic, who we talked about after signing that four year $60 million contract before the season and how he was going to be a starter, starts for a game back to the bench because it does kind of stick with him a little bit even though there he likes or they like their isos. That's not a Jovic thing. It's just I don't think it's going to work with the way their offense is clicking. Is clicking too. Well. Pelle Larson looked good yesterday. We saw him play for Sweden this this summer and wondered how deep he'd go in the rotation. Well, Eric Spoelstra going super deep again. Fontechio's the Magic and he's going to lead the league in three point percentage probably. He's so hot.

[Jay Skeets]

Thank you. All right. I like that little Heat love. I know we'll get to the spurs here with one of these questions. I'm sure. But what surprised me last night? The Bucks winning without Giannis.

[Trey Kirby]

Come on.

[Jay Skeets]

Wow. We talked about it in the preseason. Trey kept bringing it up. So yeah, that over under for the Bucks. I mean, yeah, there may be a good team, especially in a depleted Eastern Conference, but what happens when Giannis doesn't play? Are they going to win a game when he's not out there? They won last night and it was all because of Ryan Rollins. Scored A career high 32 points coming off his career high in the previous game against the Knicks 13 to 21. From the field he hit five of his seven three point attempts including a dirty step back on Jimmy Butler to sort of ice the game. Also dished out a game high eight assists. Committed just one turnover. So not only was he scoring, he was setting up guys and was touching pain a lot of the time either then finishing or kicking out to three point shooters. He impressed and that was a quality win against against a good Golden State warriors team.

[Tas Melis]

Giannis talked about it preseason. Ryan Rollins is working hard. He's crafting his skills. You can see him actually sitting beside assistant coach Rajan Rondo for hours, apparently sitting on the Bench just trying to get things right. No one knew he had this in his offensive game. Defensively, he's very good player.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tas Melis]

But he looks super confident, super comfortable, never sped up, very slowed down at all times. Making the right passes, like the cross court pass, getting into the lane. He'll find the corners. So he looks extremely smart. Kemp Porter Jr. Was the guy who's supposed to start coming into the season. He did start the first game, then he was injured. Is this Ryan Rollins job? It feels like it.

[Trey Kirby]

You can't take him out of the lineup now, that's for sure.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, and he's just, he's good at getting everyone involved and that's not Kevin Porter Jr's thing. And Ken Porter Jr. Fell apart against the Pacers in the playoffs last year as a starting guard. Doc Rivers is trying it, but I don't think that can happen. Ken Porter JR is a great six man, but Ryan Rollins, I know this is, this is a version of Ryan Rollins like we talked about Austin Reeves. What he's doing right now is people comparing, making the comparisons to Jeremy Lin. I think you can sort of look at Ryan Rollins and say, whoa, this may be a 10 game stretch where you're this good, but, but he's so comfortable. And then when you got, you know, a Giannis back that can actually take some space away, I think you could be comfortable with him just setting guys up and getting comfortable. So these Bucks in general, super duper impressive.

[Trey Kirby]

Rawlin's sanity works pretty good, actually. And look, Ryan Rollins stealing candles from Target is the best thing that happened in Milwaukee. Bucks, they picked him up off the scrap heap because the Wizards said, we can't have this guy on our team, he's not a part of our team, and you're getting in trouble off the court. What's the point of keeping you around? So the Bucks were able to just grab him and he's developed into quite a player. Eight and double digits last night for the Bucks. There you got seven guys who are averaging 10 or more. That includes Kevin Porter Jr. He had 10 in game one, so it's really six. But they seem to be a deeper team and they're playing really well together. Doc Rivers gets dunked on a lot as a coach, but when his, the chips are down, when he doesn't have a really great team, that's when his teams are the best. Doc gets more out of lesser players sometimes than he gets out of really great players. Like when he won coach of the Year with the Orlando Magic. They didn't have a good team, but they overperformed, and that's kind of what the Bucks are doing right now. It's mostly been Giannis for the majority of their games, but pulling off that win against the warriors, who are one of the hottest starting teams. Yeah, I think in the league this year was really impressive. 19 threes from Milwaukee, they shot 41% and they're basically at 40% from the season. So if they're knocking down threes at that rate, having Giannis doing what he's doing when he's on the court, tough to beat.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Rollins got the on court interview after that great game and he needs to work on that. I will say he was just like. He almost didn't know what to say for every question, so he just sort of went. Went to the default like, great team win. Great team win. He kept saying that, but he was asked right at the end, what are you dressing up for for Halloween? Blade. Light skinned Blade is what he said. I don't know if there's something there. I don't know if Blade as a nickname could stick. But he does, like, cut through the defense and he's always in control. And he's got that pretty deadly Euro step with that one, like, you know, that sort of like hardened, like, slow step through. He did that a couple times on good defenders. I mean, he scored over Draymond Green. He got Jimmy a couple times. He will Richard in transition. That was smart play. So I don't know if there's something there for Blade for this guy, but he was cutting up the defense.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, I saw he wore the Blade costume to the arena. I was a little bummed. Giannis wore a minions costume to the arena, warmed up and then just wore normal clothes on the bench.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, he should have stayed in the. In the costume.

[Trey Kirby]

Everybody would love that. If you're sitting there dressed like Bob the Mignon.

[Jay Skeets]

You know what's amazing about that? I had that substack live chat with Shea Serrano and one of the topics that came up was when Benyama and what he would maybe wear for Halloween this year. I asked Shay and Shay said he wanted Wemby to like flip it on his head, like stop doing these super tall costumes that only someone that's 75 can maybe pull off and go the opposite way. And Shay said, I'd love to see Wemby dress as a minion. And so here was Giannis last night. I meant to tell Shay that. So he sort of called it. Yeah, good stuff. Hell of a win.

[Tas Melis]

Hell of A win.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Their defense, even though we. We consider them, maybe they lack athleticism. They're playing more athletic guys. Gary Trent, not a defensive guy, but he just yanked it from whoever was driving. It was. I think it was Kaminga trying to drive it off him. Just playing it really well. It seems like they're all just locked in, especially Ryan Rollins, those step backs. He's got it all. Was he asked about doing it against his old team?

[Jay Skeets]

No, it wasn't. Asked on the floor at least. Yes. He's like, how many warriors players have scored 30 against the warriors after they've left? That's got to be like. I mean, I don't. Three or four. I mean, Durant has. Pool has. Now Rollins. Has Wiggins done it yet? I'm not sure about Wiggins.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Anyway, it's got to be one or two more.

[Tas Melis]

They look great. Obviously.

[Jay Skeets]

All right, next question here and play along. If you're in the stream team right now, Scream team here on Halloween. What's one preseason prediction you would like to revise? Let's start with Pickleman.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, I had two over unders that I regret. One is the Bucks under 42 and a half. That one's going to be an L for me. I do believe the Bucks look good. Giannis is awesome. If he stays on the court, they got a great chance to be, you know, 47 to 50 win team. I do believe the other one dumbest prediction I made Kings over.

[Jay Skeets]

You locked it.

[Trey Kirby]

I locked.

[Jay Skeets]

We all went kings over. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

I was like, come on. They got a good offense, right? 27th in the league right now. Their one win was on a tip in right. They can easily be over 5. They just don't look connected at all. They started Russell Westbrook in a game at power forward due to injury.

[Tas Melis]

Right.

[Trey Kirby]

Keegan Murray is out. But this is a team that looks like they had a spark a couple of years ago in the Fox and Ox era, and now they look completely different. They're 15th in pace. They don't even run anymore. Zach LaVine is the same guy. He's always been putting up great points, putting up great stats, and it amounts to nothing. He came back to Chicago this week. I think it was his first game back. He scored 27, shot like 70% and was a minus 23. It's like, seen it all before. So they really did become the Bulls of the Western Conference, and it's not good.

[Jay Skeets]

No, they. I mean, if we were making a list of, like, the worst vibes right now for teams in the league. The Kings are on the. The short list here. Yes, they are. No doubt they got a lot of great fantasy basketball players. That's what their team feels like to me. It just doesn't all work right. So Kings. Yeah, we all went over. We all had. Yeah. Then you locked them in.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, I locked him.

[Jay Skeets]

That should have been me. That's usually my dumbass back in the Kings.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, it's a scary time. Scary time for Sacramento because they don't feel like a team that can just turn it around. That's the thing.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, well, they're gonna steady. Wait till they get on this NBA cup court.

[Tas Melis]

Oh yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

And they get to hard working hard.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, they haven't been working hard enough. Problems.

[Jay Skeets]

They're playing on courts that are too colorful right now. Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Forget about blue. Blue collared players. We're gray collared players. Is that a thing?

[Trey Kirby]

Very inspiring.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, so those were two that you would like to take back.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, those are. That's. That's bad.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, I got.

[Jay Skeets]

What about you?

[Tas Melis]

A jumble of teams. I locked the Mavs over. Now part of it is Jason Kidd's fault. Gonna blame him for not starting his point guard. I thought we'd get a little d' Angelo Russell Anthony Davis chemistry that we used to have in Los Angeles. Why not start with that instead? They're throwing Cooper flag in the fire and it's hurting them overall. Yeah. Growing pains. So unlike the Sacramento Kings, they're going to be better than this. Kerry Irving is going to play at some point. He didn't.

[Jay Skeets]

You think so?

[Tas Melis]

Didn't want to declare it. Yeah, I think so.

[Jay Skeets]

I don't.

[Tas Melis]

I'm by you. Didn't I buy those pre season videos of him? He's bouncing around. He's shooting at mid court. He's not just on twitch. He's doing other things. He's playing basketball. So they will play better. The number's not crazy high like Sacramento's really. But I think they'll turn around. I'm worried about the New Orleans Pelicans though. Not turning around. They're over. Under was 32 and a half. I said over.

[Jay Skeets]

Me too.

[Tas Melis]

Zion looks good. A lot of.

[Trey Kirby]

I was under on that one.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

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[Tas Melis]

On that one. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

They started DeAndre Jordan in big 2025.

[Jay Skeets]

Don't worry, they're gonna get the new coach Bump coming soon. They're gonna get a new coach soon for sure.

[Trey Kirby]

I think the worst thing with the Pelicans is like Zion's playing and they're not winning.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, they've lost three of the. He's played in three of their four games. Yeah, they're over to start the season.

[Jay Skeets]

They've played good teams.

[Tas Melis]

They play good teams.

[Jay Skeets]

So there's a lot of crappy teams they get to play here.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. The worrisome part is they got the locker room in a positive way. Do they have a locker room that can turn it around with so many question marks? And I did like Kevon Looney starting at center but he also got hurt after we made the prediction and there's, there's some injuries but the guys that Zion plugged as Trey Murphy's supposed to be the next guy has not been the next guy. Jordan Poole going to the bench and you know there's so many working parts here. Fierces look good in place of Jordan Poole but at the same time it is the west. So I start to think yeah, their scad has been fairly easy but it's never going to get super easy. Excuse me.

[Trey Kirby]

Yes, it has been so.

[Tas Melis]

And it has been. It has been but it's the west and it's going to remain fairly tough. You know, it's not really going to get all that easy.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, no, it's, it's bad there. I wish I could take that one back. I also wish I could revise taking the spurs under 44 and a half. I think I tried to throw a little cold water on the spurs preseason hype and the Wemby hype and instead I just stumbled and fell over and that cup of water went all over myself.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh man.

[Jay Skeets]

And now I'm a silly boy. Cold and shivering from the I silly boy. No, I'm serious here. Like I was wrong. Like this guy's now this guy's like he's not the future, he's the now wembanyama. He helped San Antonio reach a franchise milestone last night, which sounds fake still to me. First time the spurs have ever started five and oh, how's that possible? In club's history how many titles have they won? How many 60 win seasons have they had?

[Trey Kirby]

They went to the playoffs like 100 straight years.

[Jay Skeets]

They have like the second best all time winning percentage and they never started five and oh, it's weird to me but it is true. And they were hyped and, and Wemby led them 26 points, 18 boards, six assists, five blocks all coming in the second half those blocks and you know this one's going to look silly because if this guy plays they're sure feeling like a 45 plus win team higher than that. And the scary part is, one, they still have room to grow as a team. And the other good thing is it's not just Wemby. We've already talked up Dylan Harper and his contributions off the bench, but second year guard Stefan Castle, he's been lights out, too last night. 21 points, six boards, eight assists, four steals. Like they're. It's. That's my favorite part. It's like, not just Wemby, like, oh, my God, these pieces are starting to click here together. So I'm looking silly. Going to have egg on my face. They're going to win 45.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, I was under on them as well. But Castle has taken a major leap and I think a huge part of his leap is he figured I could just throw an alley oop to Victor Wembanyama anytime and anywhere, anywhere, just throw it up like he has mastered this. I just get in the lane. But you know, as an advantage for him, he's a quick guy and that's something you can do. Get in the lane and then once you're there, you don't have to shoot it. Literally just chuck it up and Wemby will maybe dunk it or catch it and then dunk it or tip it in.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, he had the gorgeous one. That is so tough. Yeah, Lefty.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, just. Just literally guiding it. Like he's a volleyball player or whatever. Just in the. In the right direction. I don't know if he played netball or. I don't know. I mean, you know, you got to reference these sports. Netball is not a good one. You actually have to catch.

[Jay Skeets]

There's no backboard on netball.

[Trey Kirby]

Have you watched the clips of Wemby playing, like, when he's like 10 years old?

[Tas Melis]

I have.

[Trey Kirby]

No. It's amazing. He's like the most competitive guy out there. And it looks. He looks like Wemby, but as a 10 year old. So he's much taller than everybody else's feet. Look like they're bigger than mine as a 10 year old, which they probably were. I mean, that's not saying much.

[Jay Skeets]

There's something.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, he's got an eight to my.

[Jay Skeets]

Seven and a half.

[Trey Kirby]

Big cue for the spurs is who is Fox going to start for? He's going to start. They gave him a giant contract. He is a good player. He should be their second best player. But Vassell's been pretty solid. I think this year they need his defense. He has a little bit overrated as a defender, but everybody gets better as a defender when Wemby is There they definitely need his shooting. Champagne is a guy who's supposed to be a shooter for them. Hasn't really shot it well this season. And I. I would say he's the let like the least established player of their starting five because right now it's Wemby, Vassell, Castle, Harrison Barnes still doing it, and Julian Champagne. So I imagine it would be Champagne. And you just got a lot of creators out there with Fox and Castle both handling the ball set and Wemby up. But that'll be interesting to see when he comes back.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. And they still have Luke Cornett who's out, and Jeremy Sohan hasn't played a game, so there's more bodies to add.

[Trey Kirby]

Well, that's the good thing, is that.

[Tas Melis]

Sohan hasn't played because he struggled as their.

[Trey Kirby]

He's bad.

[Tas Melis]

Bad.

[Trey Kirby]

He's bad. Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

He's a good defensive player.

[Trey Kirby]

He's not good at anything. It's not a coincidence that they're playing this well with Sohan.

[Tas Melis]

It's all because of Sohan. If Sohan was in there, they would be 05.

[Trey Kirby]

No. But he stinks.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

I don't know what else to tell you. He's just bad.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

He has no position.

[Jay Skeets]

He will have a very small role. I'm with you on this team. With the way they're currently playing.

[Tas Melis]

Well, that's the thing. That's the thing.

[Jay Skeets]

He might flourish in that very small role. Yeah. Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

That's the thing with this team. And looking at their 44 and a half number before the season. Does he have help? And they've all overachieved because they've got this man in the middle that's making it all happen. But they're all playing to a great level. And so they. If they all buy in and they are all fine playing 25 minutes. Ish. You know, not a lot. Then they're almost. They're deep all of a sudden.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. And there's going to be injuries like. Like there already is. And guys will be in and out and they have these guys, like, especially at the guard position. Even if one is banged up or picks up some sort of injury, they're fine. It seems like. Yeah, that's a good point, though. They're winning because it's not just Wemby, but he's been pretty awesome, too. He's averaging 30, 15, four assists and five blocks and a steal and a half. And again, you watch the games and you're like, oh, there's a level still for him to go to Maybe this year, maybe moving forward. That's the scary part. Did you think they over celebrated after the five zero franchise start last night? I want to ask that. I don't know if you saw them. They were very.

[Ryan Seacrest]

He.

[Jay Skeets]

He was pumped. He was very excited. They all got together out there. He's high fiving like, you know, they went very to some people overboard other people. Why wouldn't you celebrate this? Do you have an opinion on that? No, No.

[Tas Melis]

I thought they were pretty high the entire game. They were riding Victor and Webman Yama who's very vocal and super pumped. So I don't know. That just seems like who he is now.

[Jay Skeets]

They wanted this franchise record. It felt like. Like they were just as shocked when they found out. Like what? Tim Duncan and David Robinson never started five zero under Pop or Tony and Manu and all these Kawhi when he was there. Like what? Let's go get that. So they were excited. It was cool and it was a good game. It was a really entertaining game. Thought it was a clean game. Few turnovers, not a lot of free throws, great shot making, great defense. Two good teams because the heat looked like the real deal.

[Trey Kirby]

Wemby currently second in MVP odds three to one, right behind Shay.

[Tas Melis]

Yep.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. They're six and 02. Shay, 31 points again.

[Trey Kirby]

That's right.

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[Jay Skeets]

Terms apply all right, Tas, what's the most interesting early season trend that you've seen?

[Tas Melis]

I will just say, being a positive Pete here, I'm just happy that the Nuggets are fun because they weren't last year and Jokic was a mad man. As in like angry because he had to do so much and carry this team and the bench wasn't playing well. But they're an incredible story. Jamal Murray looks like the best version of himself to start a season for sure. So Jokic can take a step back. He's shooting 14 shots per game this season. That's his lowest number since 1718. Will that hold up? It doesn't matter because they've got just so many little things. We talked about the spurs and their depth. All of a sudden this Nuggets team has depth. Jonas Valencunas is taking a bunch of minutes from Jokic coming in. That guy is beloved by his teammates. There's Bruce Brown coming in, just, just being himself. I just think overall, top to bottom, this team is fun to watch again. Last year they literally fired Michael Malone in the, you know, late in the season. It was a wild, wild season. Now Jokic just can be happy. He can leave the court, think about things that make him happy. Like horses and stuff.

[Trey Kirby]

Mostly horses.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, mostly horses. The basketball is, is just, is just great to watch so far this season.

[Jay Skeets]

All right. What about you, T.K.

[Trey Kirby]

I think it's interesting that there have already been 16, 40 or more point games. Yeah, that's a lot. Three players have multiple 40 point games already, and we're a week and a half into the season. Offenses are way ahead of defense.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Usually to start the season, you know, you're practicing Offense all summer. You come in, you got the rhythm. Meanwhile, defensively, you kind of got to build that rhythm. Going against actual players, it's just different. But defenses are way behind right now. The bottom six defenses in the league are Brooklyn, New Orleans, Toronto, Phoenix, Charlotte and Washington. They're the bottom six defenses ever in NBA history according to defensive rating. You have to get down to like number 75 to find a team that's not from the 2000s. So it's kind of like, guess what? The worst defense is always the worst defense. Kind of the same way the best offense is the best.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Offense of all time. Even though we don't believe it because we're watching it with our eyes, inflation is happening. But right now, the Pelicans, I think this is interesting. They have a -19 points per game margin of defeat. I guess that's the worst ever. They're getting smacked in every single one of their games. Like Task was saying Brooklyn, they're minus 14 points per game. That's the third worst ever. So there are two really, really bad teams. And I wonder who's even going to get a win first, the Pelicans or the Nets? I mean, or when do they play each other?

[Jay Skeets]

That could be games coming up here. Maybe. Do the Pelicans play tonight in a cup action? Potentially. I'm not sure that's a good one. It's funny you say that, that the defensive numbers for a lot of these teams is down because my trend is there's been so much full court pressure in this year's NBA. It's weird to see so many teams trying to apply full court press. The numbers are crazy. A lot of smart people are writing about this. Through the first week of the season, teams were pressing on nearly 5% of possessions. Now, that may not sound like a lot, but that's nearly double from two seasons ago. And like quintuple from like a decade ago. Like, this was just something you didn't see all that often. Like maybe end of game scenarios, you're trying to force a turnover. But more and more teams are implementing it. The Blazers, they play like a quarter of their possessions. Full court press. They have a lot of guys. They like their depth. They do like the hockey subs almost. So they're trying that they're having success with it. Unlike our Raptors, who I've talked about all week long, trying to do it too, and just getting blitz. So they should stop doing it. But I just think it's, it's interesting. Like when it's done Right. Not. Not only can you force turnovers, but more than that, you're killing a lot of valuable shot clock time for the offensive team because they got to struggle a little bit to get it up. Kills more clock. And then they got to start running their offense. But they're already maybe 8, 9, 10 seconds in by the time they actually set up. So you maybe are taking away second options of an offense and just the first. Now, offenses have been laid out. These are great guys, these are talented players, but something to watch. I mean, I think that's going to go down. But it's fascinating. Just this full court pressure from a lot of these teams.

[Tas Melis]

Does it have anything to do with teams playing more players?

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, maybe.

[Tas Melis]

Are they just watching the Oklahoma City Thunder, this is a copycat league, and saying, okay, we can go deep, we should go.

[Jay Skeets]

The Thunder, the Pacers.

[Tas Melis]

Pacers, Pacers.

[Jay Skeets]

That's a great example. They were the 1 team last year, Rick Carlisle, like, they were doing a lot of full court pickups and they had a lot of guys that they trusted to come in and out.

[Tas Melis]

So, yeah, we're seeing it happen. We mentioned the Bucks. I mean, that's what Ryan Rollins does. He's so freaking good at it. There's teams doing it. The Toronto Raptors, they want to emulate the OKC Thunder and go deep. Maybe that's the problem.

[Jay Skeets]

You need the personnel to do it. Is the problem.

[Trey Kirby]

I believe they were called the OKC of the East.

[Tas Melis]

Exactly. That's what they said.

[Jay Skeets]

I forgot about that.

[Tas Melis]

They said they wanted to go deep. They said they're playing a lot of guys. They are.

[Jay Skeets]

You can go deep and still not win.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're not. The offense is okay anyway. The defense is the. Struggling immensely. Immensely. That is. That's bad to watch. I just got depressed.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

It'S. It's odd not to see an effort again. Back to the home season opener. I'm having some.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, no, no, no, no, no. We can't talk about them anymore. I'm calling it there. Final question here.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, sorry. I had a list of 10 players that I have on Cam Stewart watch. They're struggling.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, wow. These are early season trends here.

[Trey Kirby]

Early struggling players. He's coming off the bench now. Came back from a finger injury. Shooting 22% from the field. One for nine from three.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

Derrick White, 17 points per game. That's pretty good. Second on the Celtics, but he's shooting 31% from the field. 25% on a league leading 11.23 point attempts per game. Wow, that's a lot of shots to be taken if you're shooting 25 from three.

[Jay Skeets]

That'll tick up. That'll tick up.

[Trey Kirby]

That'll tick up.

[Tas Melis]

Had a bad start last year too, right?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, but it's also kind of like.

[Jay Skeets]

Sorry, I just saw Cam Stewart. Cam Stewart in our monitor. J.D. you son of a bitch. You've done it again.

[Trey Kirby]

What?

[Jay Skeets]

A photo for the podcast listeners. JD Just put on a photo of Cam Stewart in an inflatable kayak with an incredible hat on and glasses. Is that the tag hanging off the table? Yeah, the tag is on the glasses. Is he gonna return those? Cam Stewart, a Canadian sports broadcasting legend.

[Tas Melis]

In our eyes.

[Jay Skeets]

Swim up box. Looking good. Jesus, J. I didn't even.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, this is blowing my mind.

[Jay Skeets]

I'm sorry.

[Trey Kirby]

Photo up that quickly and have the.

[Jay Skeets]

Drop just waiting there. Yeah, I'm sorry about that.

[Trey Kirby]

Struggling more players on Cam Stewart. Wash. Dyson Daniels, averaging 5, 5 and 3, hasn't scored in double digits yet. 31 from the field, 33 from three point land. Cam, not great. Tyus Jones, he's averaging 21 and 12 for 12 from three so far. He started every game for the mad magic.

[Tas Melis]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

CJ McCollum, second most shots on the Wizards and he's shooting 36. Lou Dort, 18 from three so far. 40 shooter the last.

[Jay Skeets]

Didn't he have a good first game or am I crazy? He.

[Trey Kirby]

I don't know, but he's maybe just.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, okay. Yeah. Tyus Jones has played in all six games. He hasn't started.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, maybe. Maybe I misread this.

[Tas Melis]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Jay Skeets]

Keep going. Lou Dort's on the list even though they're six. Zero.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

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[Jay Skeets]

No, exactly.

[Trey Kirby]

Some of these guys, it doesn't even matter. Cam Johnson, another guy. That doesn't matter. 5 of 16 from 3, 6 assists, 4 turn turnovers, 10 total rebounds.

[Tas Melis]

Whoa.

[Jay Skeets]

That's all.

[Trey Kirby]

Has he been an upgrade over Michael Porter Jr. Not yet.

[Jay Skeets]

Vibes wise, he has. Maybe.

[Trey Kirby]

Yes, exactly. I think that's a huge part of it. Less podcasting from Cam Johnson as well. Shane Sharp, 17 points per game. That's a lot. Shooting 33 from the field and 24 from three. He's just chucking.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, it's been bad.

[Trey Kirby]

100% chucker out there. Bogdan Bogdanovich, two points in 33 minutes. He has one assist and five turnovers this year.

[Jay Skeets]

I was going to say, I didn't even heard his name mentioned. I didn't even know he was playing.

[Trey Kirby]

He started the Last two games for the Clippers because Beal is out. And finally, Klay Thompson. He's played 104 minutes so far. Seven three pointers, eight. Two pointers, seven assists, six turnovers.

[Jay Skeets]

But one baddie. One baddie. All right. That's a good list.

[Trey Kirby]

Struggling.

[Jay Skeets]

That was a good list. Struggling. I like that list. The camp starts struggling.

[Trey Kirby]

Straggling.

[Jay Skeets]

Continue with that all season. I like that. All right, the final question here as we round up the first week and a half of the NBA season task. We'll start with you. What's a bold prediction that you would like to make now after, you know, seven or eight nights here?

[Tas Melis]

I think the Toronto Raptors are coming back. No, I just wanted you to interrupt me again.

[Jay Skeets]

I'm sorry. I just couldn't go down.

[Tas Melis]

I wasn't going to talk about them again.

[Jay Skeets]

You were anyways.

[Tas Melis]

Listen, I think no, Larry Markkanen is not being traded this season.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[Tas Melis]

Okay. Is obviously a ballin. The dude is averaging 34 points a game to start this season and the team is fighting every single game. They. They look like they're in a cohesive bunch. They're 2 and 2 right now. That being said, he's 28 years old, so his age doesn't match any of their young guys. But players are playing older now. Just hang in there with Lowry Markkanen, just keep him around and mainly because the Utah Jazz never. Are never successful with their draft picks and I mean draft order. They're a bad team, but they never get the number one pick. They keep dropping back. They had the number five with Ace Bailey last year and here they are a good team, a fun team for Utah Jazz fans to watch. So keep them around. Can they entice other teams with some of their young guys? Maybe. Perhaps crazy. Is that crazy? Perhaps, you know, another team can go in and say, hey, maybe Keonte George can be our guy. Bryce Sensiba can come off our bench and score 20 per. It's possible that guy can score. Maybe Taylor Hendricks hasn't really played in the NBA all that much. Give him a shot as he has his first full season in the league. So there are options for the Jazz to improve. Otherwise not just be this hopefully in a great. In a great situation. Be a.500 team this year with Larry Mark and that would be an incredible season. But other ways to improve by trading some of the young guys. So I don't there's a chance he gets traded, but I'll say he doesn't and keep him around.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

He looks good Keonte George is playing pretty well too. 22 and 9. Not shooting the ball all that great and turning it over, but he's definitely taken a step forward and it was kind of a question mark if he would even be signing a second contract with the Jazz. But he looks really good so far. And Walker Kessler has been solid as well. A guy that people were basically trying to steal at the trade deadline last year. And over the summer they didn't come to an extension agreement with him. Right. So he's playing for a contract as well and he's looking good doing it.

[Tas Melis]

He is, yeah. Surprising. So they do have some depth now all of a sudden. Some depth.

[Jay Skeets]

Bold prediction from you.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay. So I was on stat head stathead.com doing some searches, looking at all the teams that started for. And now as everybody knows, the Bulls undefeated right now. We also got the 76ers, the spurs and the Thunder all undefeated as well.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

Since the year 2000, there have been 70 teams that started 4, 0 or better. You know, the best was the Warriors 24, 0.

[Jay Skeets]

Right.

[Trey Kirby]

Only 10 of those 70 teams missed the playoffs. It's happened. I did get a massive jump scare when I saw that one of the teams was a Nikola Vucevic led Orlando Magic team that started 40 and it somehow ended up winning 21 games. Oh, yeah. I don't remember what happened. I think it was the year after the COVID season. So like 20, 20, 20 21. The worst season to say when you're reciting the years back. So that, that frightened me.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

But I will say my bold prediction is that all four of the teams that started 4 and O or better will make the top eight this year.

[Jay Skeets]

Top eight now. So some may have to come in through the play in is what you're saying.

[Trey Kirby]

There's one.

[Jay Skeets]

I'm thinking. Okay, okay, okay. Just wanted to clarify, but I like it.

[Trey Kirby]

Thunder, I think, I think they're going to make the playoffs.

[Jay Skeets]

Yes.

[Trey Kirby]

I think they'll finish top eight.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Spurs are looking like a top six.

[Tas Melis]

Six.

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[Trey Kirby]

Can't deny the question mark is in the Eastern Conference. Can Philadelphia keep it up? Can Chicago keep it up? It's kind of the flip side of the same coin. The Sixers are on fire from three they can't miss right now. Maxi and Edgecombe. I wouldn't have been surprised if they came up for our surprise talk.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Early on. Can they keep shooting the ball as well as they did? How's it going to happen when Paul George gets back into the lineup? How do they continue to blend within beads? The Bulls are getting lucky from the three point line, but on the other side, holding teams to 26% from three, but doing a great job of taking away three pointers and forcing bad shots. I don't know if I think the Sixers or the Bulls are top six teams in the Eastern Conference, but we've seen the Pacers are having a real tough season. We knew they're going to be without Halliburton. They lost Miles Turner, but like everybody but Siakam is injured right now, basically, except for Neesmith and Walker. And they could have ended up on the Cam Stewart list as well. So I think they could easily fall out of the top eight. That opens up a spot there. People thought the Raptors might have been in the top eight coming into the year. I don't think they're there right now. They might still make a run at top 10. But I think there are spots in the playoffs for teams like the bulls and the 76ers. The heater of surprise, like we said, they're taking one of those top eight spots, it feels like. But yeah, I think. I think all four of the four and oh, starters. Okay, top eight and then we'll see what happens in the play tournament.

[Jay Skeets]

All right. I like that prediction.

[Tas Melis]

That's a good one.

[Jay Skeets]

I got two for you. One I've already said before to go back to the Raptors. I think Darko, Dead man walking, I think he's going to be fired next week this time. I guess next week. That's what my gut says. But my other one on a positive note is Cade Cunningham is going to lead the Pistons to Las Vegas, baby, for a semifinal matchup in the NBA Cup. We did our preview yesterday. I'm doubling down on Pistons and Cade. I think we glossed over Cade Cunningham's awesome game against the Magic the other day.

[Trey Kirby]

30 points, incredible.

[Jay Skeets]

10 assists, six boards, three steals, three blocks, zero turnovers.

[Trey Kirby]

That's big.

[Jay Skeets]

We're always shitting on him for his high turnovers and he started the season low efficiency, high turnovers. But this one really got it going. He's being asked to do a ton of right now offensively for that team. But this guy's good. He's awesome. And I think they're going to surprise a little people. They'll be like that little Cinderella team. The feel good story to maybe make some cup noise. So those are my two predictions.

[Tas Melis]

That's a good one. Yeah. And Cade's only going to get better. Kara Slivert has Come back now to help him out. At least handle the ball a little bit. I saw Thompson's only getting better. Jay Nabi will come back one day, so. Yes, that's a. That's a good one.

[Jay Skeets]

All right, let's take a quick break and then we'll get to worst of the week.

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[Jay Skeets]

I'm very excited for the return of worst of the week.

[JD (Super Producer)]

It's coming.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Cool.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the worst of the week.

[Tas Melis]

We've got three nominees. You tell me who should win it all. First nominee is Anthony Edwards. Let me paint the picture. We're in Minnesota, the Lakers are visiting. And what you're going to hear now is a fan yelling from the stands and Anthony Edwards responding to that fan from the bench. It's about a Lakers player. Listen. So that fan yells who is number 12? And Anthony Edwards responds. That's what I'm saying. He has no idea that Jake Laravia, that's his name, is a great basketball player right now. He just banged home five threes against your team, had a great night, his career night. So I threw Anthony Edwards name in there as the, as the worst of the week nominee.

[Jay Skeets]

He should know who Jake Laravian is.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, you gotta know.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yes.

[Trey Kirby]

They played against each other seven times.

[Tas Melis]

Wow. I did not check that. That is amazing. He definitely shoot. He literally said, that's what I'm saying. Who is that guy? Now? He hadn't played for the Lakers. This is his first time playing for the Lakers. So maybe he just didn't know who he was considering he played for the Sacramento Kings, another team. Oh, I played that guy six times. I get it now. He was on another team. Maybe.

[Jay Skeets]

Do you think it's at all possible Anthony Edwards misheard the fan because you were saying Jake Laravia was having a good game, right?

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Do you think ant maybe heard in his head like he heard like who's. Who's guarding number 12 or who's on number 12? That's what I'm saying. This guy's cooking us. I'm just saying. I'm just saying maybe, I mean it's fair.

[Trey Kirby]

Fair.

[Jay Skeets]

Guess that all said we could hear it literally on the broadcast. So probably he heard it correctly and was having some fun with it.

[Tas Melis]

But maybe hilarious stuff. All right, we'll jump to the second nominee. It's the spurs arena known as the Frost bank center because it was stinky. Listen to this info here from Miami Heat longtime reporter. He said for the third time this season, the Heat are playing in an arena the night after an NBA Young Boy concert. And it smells the same as the first two locker rooms literally are closed here in San Antonio with signs that I that they are being disinfected. Young Never Broke Again. That's the. The rapper he's referring to. He goes by, you know, NBA Young Boy or Young Boy Never Broke Again has had concerts three times now, the day before the Miami are in that arena. And all three times there have been these disinfecting processes that happen, I suppose.

[Jay Skeets]

Man, that's all he said. Open a window.

[Trey Kirby]

Disinfecting processes. There's no other way to say it.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, I don't know that there were disinfecting processes. The first two. Although Ira Winderman, much respected. He did say they're closed here in San Antonio with signs that are being disinfected this time. And they've all smelled. Because Ira Winderman is there for everybody. Game for the Miami Heat. So he knows.

[Jay Skeets]

What's the reporter's name?

[Tas Melis]

Ira Winderman.

[Jay Skeets]

Ira Windex man. Disaffecting.

[Tas Melis]

Okay, sure. The glass. The glass needs a cleaning.

[Trey Kirby]

That's a funny costume for next holiday.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, it is a Windex man.

[Tas Melis]

Okay, so I thought you were going with a little bit more. We need wind or man. We need.

[Jay Skeets]

I just heard disinfecting.

[Tas Melis]

Man. You're really the. The. What's the Greek movie? The. My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Yeah, you're the Windex man. The old. The old granddad who's like, hey, Windex works on everything. Anyway, good stuff, young boy.

[Jay Skeets]

Windex man.

[Trey Kirby]

Well, fortunately for the Heat, the Make America Slime Again tour is going to be ending pretty soon. I don't think they're going to have any more crossover dates, which is, you know, just too bad.

[Tas Melis]

That is hilarious. Three times they go into an arena and they know Young Boy just formed there.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, young boy.

[Tas Melis]

It smells like young.

[Jay Skeets]

That's very funny.

[Trey Kirby]

Smells like young. Maybe it smells like Lil Dump. What? I see one of the support acts.

[Jay Skeets]

On the makeup artists name. Little Dump. No, lil dump. K3. Lil dump D. Baby, they're not even trying anymore with these things.

[Trey Kirby]

Open a window.

[Jay Skeets]

Little Dump's been here. Little Dump. Come on.

[Trey Kirby]

That's awesome.

[Jay Skeets]

So many.

[Tas Melis]

So many reasons it stinks. Including the opening act, Lil Dump. All right, third nominee. It's the Jalen Brown hair drama. Jaylen Brown's hair drama that started last weekend. They're playing the New York Nail Knicks. Jaylen Brown is being guarded by OG Anunoby, who's wearing a white New York Knicks jersey. And Jalen Brown goes into him and literally all of a sudden, there's a black streak on O.J. anunoby's jersey. So everybody's saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Jalen Brown's literally spraying his hairline. And the great thing, even though we're calling him worst of the week nominee, he admitted it.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

You know, I would expect any NBA player to never.

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[Jay Skeets]

Comment on it. Yeah, totally.

[Trey Kirby]

Every.

[Tas Melis]

Every NBA personality saying, whoa, it's Carlos Boozer all over again.

[Jay Skeets]

Right, right.

[Tas Melis]

But Boozer never admitted Jaylen Brown literally went on his twitch with his friends, who are. I think they're giving him some sort of hairline, like they were. They were talking about it anyway. And Jaylen Brown literally gets on the phone with his friends there and calls LeBron James, and LeBron doesn't pick up. Jalen Brown knows he ain't picking up, but his voicemail says. He says, code red. They caught me slipping. Very, very funny, man. He and his friends started talking about having to go to Turkey and get hair plants. Maybe that's an idea, because hair plants is a specialty in Turkey, apparently. Yeah, yeah. They get.

[Jay Skeets]

They do it all there. You can do butts, you can do hair.

[Tas Melis]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

Tops and bottoms.

[Jay Skeets]

You get a discount if you do it.

[Tas Melis]

They start having this discussion about money because they say, why would you fly to Turkey? Just fly them all here. Just get it done. Whoever has to do it, come on, get them in here. It's very funny. The friends. One friend literally starts dropping seeds on his scalp and says, water your plants.

[Jay Skeets]

I didn't see that. That was very far.

[Tas Melis]

Jalen Brown says, look at my roof. He's. He's ashamed that he's doing it. And lots of puns, too. Jalen said, how did we get here? And then his friend said, how did we get hair?

[Jay Skeets]

That was funny.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, just some punish. They start punting turkey as well. Anyway, it was a good show. So Jalen Brown. Yeah, it was a good show.

[Jay Skeets]

You don't.

[Tas Melis]

You can't say that very often. That's a good twitch show. But it wasn't enjoyable. And it was enjoyable. Jalen Brown said, hey, I've got my floss. And I did put some stuff on my hairline. Now, he didn't go into detail. I shouldn't say that. That he said, I sprayed my hair. But he did say, code red. I screwed up. I'm slipping, and I need some work done. Although I looked at it, it was fine. I guess he's just trying to make it thicker. Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

So he's trying to fill it in.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So here we are. Those are your three nominees.

[Jay Skeets]

Those are great.

[Tas Melis]

I don't know if you have any more comments about Jalen Brown, but the Jalen Brown Spurs arena, courtesy of NBA YoungBoy and Anthony Edwards saying, I don't know who that guy is on the other team. Those are your.

[Jay Skeets]

Those are great. I did have a couple other nominees, maybe.

[Tas Melis]

Okay.

[Jay Skeets]

Lamello Ball had a rough week because he kicked the ball off of Davion Mitchell's face by accident. I don't Know if you guys saw that clip.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

He was, like, trying to kick the ball over to the ref. I think Mitchell right in the face. Should never kick a basketball with people. And then he was also fined $35,000 for flipping off an official.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, come on. Lamelo.

[Jay Skeets]

He was upset with a no call, all that, so. So he flipped off the raffle.

[Trey Kirby]

He gave him a finger. Yeah, that's pretty good.

[Jay Skeets]

Yep. Gave him the bird. Just flipped it off and then. And this one's more of a serious one that no one should ever do. But did you see the individual that ran onto the court during the Cavs Nets game? I guess last week? Last Friday, like, he went up to get a selfie with Donovan Mitchell, but it's always a weird situation. And it was like, not a child either. Like, I don't know, teenager, at least a man. Yeah. And he was quickly dealt with by security, but. But he got out there very easy. Everyone's like, what the hell's going on? So he's also a worst of the week.

[Tas Melis]

Don't do that. It was a little startling, the fan. All the. The players stopped, were worried, but then they said, okay, this boy, man, whatever. Who just wants an autograph. It was odd. It was an awesome.

[Jay Skeets]

I don't know. Yeah, like.

[Tas Melis]

Because the worrisome part is the further it goes, at some point they start blocking offense. Yeah, exactly. And that's what makes NBA so awesome.

[Jay Skeets]

I don't know if it's true or not. In watching the guy do it, it had the vibe to me of like, a content creator, like, almost bet type thing. I have no idea if that's true or not, but that's like. Because the way he did it, like, it was like, got the selfie, then he was like, you know, jumping around, and I don't know, I was like, you're doing this for the clicks here. I think.

[Trey Kirby]

Probably so.

[Jay Skeets]

Maybe.

[Tas Melis]

Maybe.

[Trey Kirby]

Anyway, about that time, a guy ran on to the Cavs court and told LeBron to come back to Cleveland. And then he came back to Cleveland and won a title. Title. That was cool.

[Jay Skeets]

That guy's a hero.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

There was that kid that came on and, like, gave Mellow a hug.

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[Jay Skeets]

Once upon a time.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

The kid's like, an almost. It's almost. It's cute.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

He shouldn't be doing it either, because otherwise it's gonna start happening every game. But that was a fun moment. It's a little kid coming out.

[Trey Kirby]

Little kid, boy.

[Jay Skeets]

Young boy.

[Trey Kirby]

Never broke again. Might have been a little dumb little.

[Jay Skeets]

Dump is a little that's so cool. Kicking over that.

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[Jay Skeets]

All right, pick em let's do it tasks. I mean you have lost the month of October, but let's let's see this month out here with a game.

[Tas Melis]

Well, I think this is a good game because we've got an unbeaten team, the Chicago Bulls hosting a team in the New York Knicks that I believe needs a victory. So that's why I took the Knicks Coming off a loss, they are at the -4 and a half point favorite. So they gotta win by five or more, while the Bulls, they just gotta lose by four. And you guys are comfortable with that line? You're both taking the Chicago Bulls plus four and a half points.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, Tas Melis, this is an NBA cup game. We're gonna find out who respects the cup more tonight.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Knicks or Bulls?

[Trey Kirby]

I think they got a great court as well in Chicago.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

Hard work.

[Jay Skeets]

It's a great. Oh, great court. I thought he said great court. Okay, great court.

[Trey Kirby]

Great court. But it's prove it time for the Chicago Bulls. I'm comfortable with this line, but I would be comfortable with any line for the Chicago Bulls. You can tell me that the Thunder are favored by a thousand points. I'll say, yeah, sure, be down for Chicago. But the Bulls have Knicks, Knicks on Friday and Sunday. Then 76ers, Bucks, Cavs, Spurs, Pistons.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

So things are getting serious.

[Jay Skeets]

Here we go. Here we go. 22 games. 22. 22 games over the weekend, including night one of the NBA cup, which is tonight. Here. Those key games on prime on Friday night. And on Saturday, the Mavericks are taking on the Pistons in Mexico City.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, it's happening.

[Jay Skeets]

It's happening. Just like sneaks up on us.

[Trey Kirby]

It does.

[Jay Skeets]

It's like they're going to be playing in Mexico City at 10pm Eastern, and I think it's on Peacock. So Mav's Pistons down there in Mexico City could be fun. All right, before we go here on the drop, we got to end with some rapid fire questions. Trey, you got the cues, we got the answers.

[Trey Kirby]

Tas told us all about Jaylen Brown's hair coming off on OG Anunoby's jersey. And worst of the week. Guys, I want to know, what's your worst hair related mishap?

[Jay Skeets]

Skeets, I've shared this story many times here on the podcast. Got my buddy Brody when we were in high school to shave my head with a beard shaver. And I have a terribly shaved head. I am just not a person that can pull off the buzz cut. It's bad. I got moles up on my dome and he did a horrible job. I mean, it was brutal. Never again. But because I've shared that story. Worst hair related mishap. I got a weird cowlick going on at the back of my head. And we get these new camera angles in here. And there's been some. Some shows where it's like just. I mean, I can feel it right now.

[Trey Kirby]

J.D.

[Jay Skeets]

If you go to the wide shot, you'll see it.

[Tas Melis]

It's poofing a little.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Like okay. Is it maybe not too bad today, but I can't control it.

[Tas Melis]

Oh yeah. I would think that it's just not bad today actually. Combing your hair after you wake up.

[Jay Skeets]

No, dude, I do I. It's. Do you like. You don't have a. You got great. You don't have a cowlick. Happens to me.

[Trey Kirby]

Happens to me too. Happens to the best of us.

[Jay Skeets]

So I hate this angle now when I have a bad cowlick day.

[Tas Melis]

So you're going to shave your head?

[Jay Skeets]

It's better with the monitor cuz it blends in now a little bit. But no, I'm not going to shave my head.

[Trey Kirby]

I thought you were going to say the new mullet you grew with the sasquatch mullet. Yeah, people love the sasquatch mullet.

[Jay Skeets]

Should I grow a mullet? Yeah, that be a pick and pay off.

[Trey Kirby]

Pick and pay off. Like a year long. Pick and pay off. He's up picking, paying off. November from last year.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Take a look at this flow task. What's your worst hair related mishap? Have you even had one?

[Tas Melis]

I have. Well, this is, this is. I'm very much relating my incident to a hair related. Related, sort of. Okay, so listen, I was smoking a, a joint as a young child.

[Jay Skeets]

I was gonna be a young boy.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Just because I was young or. Or because he smokes. He smokes and stuff. He does, yeah, I'm sure he does. Anyways, I was 13 years old, old somebody, my man Mark was lighting this joint for me and you remember with lighters used to boost it. Oh yeah, huge. And he was sort of under me. I don't know why he was under me, but like I was above him. Anyways, he lights it and the lighter just goes beside the joint a little bit. And it singed my eyelashes. It's just super hot. But I didn't really think anything of it. I go home, my dad says, what happened to your eyelashes? So it clicks and I say I cut them with rusty scissors. That was my excuse. I thought it was brilliant because we have, we have. We had scissors in our bathroom that had rust on them. Clicked to me. Oh yeah, that makes sense. That was my excuse. But literally there's a flame in my eyes and my other one knife didn't trim. Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Why'd you do what?

[Tas Melis]

Oh, because that's what all the kids are doing.

[Jay Skeets]

Come on dad, keep up.

[Tas Melis]

This is making their eyelashes blonde. Anyway, those Lighters are so stupid. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Why do you get the extra power?

[Jay Skeets]

Why do you even need it?

[Tas Melis]

So dumb rusty scissors.

[Jay Skeets]

Cut them with rusty scissors.

[Trey Kirby]

The detail makes it seem more realistic.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, exactly. J.D.

[Trey Kirby]

You have any hair related myths, mishaps?

[JD (Super Producer)]

I don't know if I've said this on the show before. I feel like I have, but I. My hair caught on fire from a Bunsen burner in science.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, yeah, you have.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah. Like, it was just shaggy hair, I guess was like grade eight. And I was just like looking at a test tube that was being. And it was literally, bro, your hair's on fire. You know, like, it was just like, I just whipped the glass, the goggles off and I basically put it out. Yeah, a poof of like just raining down hair. It was very embarrassing.

[Jay Skeets]

You didn't go to like the, the pole station?

[JD (Super Producer)]

No showers. Didn't have to. Didn't have.

[Tas Melis]

Man.

[Jay Skeets]

I always wanted to see that in action.

[Tas Melis]

Big time.

[Jay Skeets]

I would, like, go, man. No, you should go.

[Trey Kirby]

Still on fire going over there. What'd you do with your hair afterwards after part of it burn off?

[JD (Super Producer)]

I mean, I've continued with my day.

[Trey Kirby]

Like, oh, I mean, like, did you cut it later on, you know, or was it not enough that it made. It wasn't.

[JD (Super Producer)]

It wasn't impact. It definitely made an impact. But yeah, I guess I went to the barber the next year or something. But yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Rusty scissors. Give me the rusty scissors.

[Jay Skeets]

Cut, please.

[Tas Melis]

You did have a lot of hair to burn.

[JD (Super Producer)]

I did, yeah. It's pretty shaggy guy.

[Trey Kirby]

Just got a little extra to burn off here. Earlier this week, Asia Wilson called Bam out of bio. Her boyfriend finally acknowledging what people have known for a long time.

[Jay Skeets]

They're dating.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Congratulations to them.

[Jay Skeets]

It's nice for them to come out.

[Trey Kirby]

Best mid range couple in the game.

[Tas Melis]

As far as I'm concerned. No doubt.

[Trey Kirby]

What's something you're ready to acknowledge for the first time, Skeets?

[Jay Skeets]

That I'm a little bit afraid of going camping this weekend because of the bears.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, nervous of the bears.

[Jay Skeets]

Black bears in Georgia.

[Tas Melis]

They're out.

[Jay Skeets]

They're hungrier, they're more aggressive because of right now. They're entering their power eating time.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Trying to add fat before hibernation because it's getting cold here. So they're gonna be looking at my hot dogs, so I gotta be careful.

[Trey Kirby]

You gotta be careful with your garbage.

[Jay Skeets]

Exactly. I mean, there's, there's bear boxes. We are going to a state park, so we should be fine. But you know, you gotta Be loud. Like, I might have to step to a black bear.

[Tas Melis]

This.

[Trey Kirby]

You might have to step to a black bear.

[Jay Skeets]

They don't play dead. Never play dead with a black bear. Oh, I can eat that now. You know, I mean, I could carry some bear spray too, if I must, but I think. Yeah, I think I'll be fine. I'm pretty loud as it is, so. Yeah, they're not gonna be interested unless.

[Trey Kirby]

You'Re playing dead, and then they'll be very interested.

[Jay Skeets]

Yes. So. But I am admitting that I'm a tiny bit afraid just because of the season.

[Tas Melis]

Listen, we've been here for 12 years. This is the first I've heard of bears being around.

[Jay Skeets]

Right, right.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, they're around bulking season. You're an attempt to too.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

No, you don't want to hear them rustling.

[Jay Skeets]

No, I really don't.

[Trey Kirby]

Do you?

[JD (Super Producer)]

No.

[Trey Kirby]

Don't want to hear that rustling.

[Tas Melis]

You're gonna hang some food from a tree, that kind of thing.

[Jay Skeets]

We'll do the boxes. They have bear boxes, so we'll be fine there. And I just plan on implementing the NBA young boy paraphernalia while I am at said campsite so that I just hit the. Hit the hay when I hit that sleeping bag, you know, Rustle away, boys. Help your yourself do a dogger.

[Tas Melis]

I don't care.

[Jay Skeets]

Don't come in the table. Do that.

[Trey Kirby]

Like cook an extra one and leave it out there so they don't mess with you. This one's for you.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, I guess they are. They're attracted to toothpaste and stuff too, though, so you gotta be careful with that. You're not supposed to keep that in your tent.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, be careful.

[Jay Skeets]

You gotta learn these things here. There's a lot of black bears, apparently in Georgia.

[Trey Kirby]

It's very true.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Yep.

[Trey Kirby]

Tas, what's something you're ready to acknowledge for the first time?

[Tas Melis]

I'm not a good dancer.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, bullshit.

[Tas Melis]

I mean, I don't have. We talked about it yesterday with Yan. Staticumpo. And it was a discussion. Trey didn't believe that Yanis and his height. I would actually do any good on the dance floor. Even though he pulls it out every once in a while.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, I don't have it.

[Tas Melis]

Like you used to. Oh, okay.

[Jay Skeets]

Like you used to. That's different. Listen, none of us do. I'd say.

[Tas Melis]

I just thought it'd be funny enough. I mean, I'm not a great dancer, but I can obviously dance.

[Jay Skeets]

That's better than 90% of people then.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, listen, I Haven't been to many dance events recently.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, that's.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. So Greek dance.

[Jay Skeets]

You want to go dance?

[Tas Melis]

That's my latest. Yeah, sure. I wish. I wish, I wish I went dancing. It's been so long.

[Jay Skeets]

I wish I went dancing. I wish I went dancing. I'm putting that on a quote board by. By the way. I wish I went dancing.

[Tas Melis]

How many people have gone? I don't want to admit our age, but when's the last time you hit a dance wedding?

[Jay Skeets]

Been a while wedding. Matt Austin's wedding is the answer.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, probably.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah. I wasn't even dancing.

[Jay Skeets]

You just drank in the bar the whole time.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah, I was at the bar for literally all night.

[Jay Skeets]

That's what he said. Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, that's what happens. Great wedding.

[Jay Skeets]

We were yelling. You were bad. I couldn't talk for two days after throat was dead.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, it was rough. That. The, the initial show right after. You guys were rough.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, that was brutal. Yeah, well, yeah, we did a show two days after. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Jd, what's something you're ready to acknowledge for the first time?

[JD (Super Producer)]

The lighting in this studio sucks and I don't know what to do about it.

[Jay Skeets]

We got to get a professional lighter.

[Tas Melis]

We need help.

[JD (Super Producer)]

That's it. That's it. You earlier, you mentioned it's a one man show, but it can't be a one man show.

[Odoo Advertiser]

It's.

[JD (Super Producer)]

I can got. We got two shitty lights here. That's it. Yeah, and one of them is a spare, cuz these things suck.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay, well, it's not turning off though.

[Tas Melis]

You know, it was.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, this one was this morning. Yeah.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, yeah, it was fritzing. Yeah.

[JD (Super Producer)]

So that's it.

[Jay Skeets]

We'll fix it, jd.

[JD (Super Producer)]

I mean, we're getting there. We're getting there.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, yeah. We said this was going to be a process.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

And we're going to change some art in here. We get the lights humming.

[Tas Melis]

We're doing a lot. We're doing a live phone call. Call on the show. Calling. Calling my. My lighting guy. My lights guy.

[JD (Super Producer)]

If it's a lighting guy I think you're talking about, please don't.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, excuse me.

[Jay Skeets]

Not that guy's best friend. That guy.

[Tas Melis]

Not that guy. He's not the lighting guy.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Oh, table Tony with the long hair.

[Tas Melis]

Now you don't trust the lighting guy?

[JD (Super Producer)]

I. I don't know who to trust anymore. I don't know who to trust.

[Tas Melis]

Anyways, we're not calling him. We have to discuss if he's worthy.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Let's discuss.

[Jay Skeets]

Let's go dancing with the lighting Guy.

[JD (Super Producer)]

That's how we interview our lighting guest.

[Odoo Advertiser]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Let's see what he's got.

[Tas Melis]

See ya, Johnny. Hideaway.

[Jay Skeets]

Excuse me?

[Trey Kirby]

That's a fun place to dance.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, exactly. That's a great place, especially for us old people. Yeah, we feel young when we're there. We feel like NBA young boys over on that dance floor. So they call us when we walk in. Young boys again. Just kidding.

[Trey Kirby]

They don't watch our podcast.

[Jay Skeets]

They don't know. That's good, though. I like that.

[Trey Kirby]

This is Halloween. Everybody make a scene. Might be a little bit late to throw one together. But, guys, I want to know. What's a slutty male Halloween costume?

[Odoo Advertiser]

Wow.

[Jay Skeets]

What a rapid fire question. Slutty male Halloween costume. I'll tell you one. I saw it yesterday on no buffs. Look at this slut. No, not that.

[Trey Kirby]

That.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Oh, wait, it's this.

[Jay Skeets]

Damn it. Sexy pirate Trey Kirby. We were all dressed as pirates. Yep. On yesterday's no bus because we were pretending to be, you know, the shipwrecked mateys of the 1784 Galleon off the coast of Fiji. That went down. You know, that old chestnut. But anyway, look at that. I think you pull this off, though, man. I got the good looking for you.

[Trey Kirby]

Well, thanks. Showing a lot of chest hair. And I'm glad you noticed because One of my 2024 New Year's resolutions was to be a little bit more sexy.

[Jay Skeets]

All right.

[Trey Kirby]

Show a little bit more chest. Open some more buttons.

[Jay Skeets]

All right. Well, you said you really liked the pirate garb. It was comfortable, so breezy, flowy.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

The pirate's life is for me. You're just out. You're on the seas, you're wearing comfortable clothes. You're eating fruit all the time.

[JD (Super Producer)]

No. You're not hardly eating anything.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Why are you eating fruit all the time?

[Trey Kirby]

To stave off the scrubby, of course.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, but it's tough to come by, isn't it? That's why you're getting screwed.

[Trey Kirby]

You're saying they didn't have grocery stores?

[Jay Skeets]

Hey, pull over to legal everywhere.

[Trey Kirby]

Fine.

[Jay Skeets]

But that's a good look for you and very sexy.

[Trey Kirby]

You guys should start wearing like, a bandana like that. I mean, not specifically a pirate one, but like the over the head bandana. Very popular in the 90s. Like in the Dan Cortez era. You don't see it as much anymore.

[Jay Skeets]

We hook with a guy that plays in a bandana.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, we do.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

And it's like, wow, hamburger.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, bring it back.

[Trey Kirby]

Fine.

[Tas Melis]

I think. I think it works. It's just nice to have on your head. I think headbands are just. Meh. I think bandanas are beating it. Like, I pulled one out and I said, well, this is. Bet. This is good. It's gonna make it. All right.

[Jay Skeets]

All right.

[Trey Kirby]

20, 26.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Can't wait.

[Jay Skeets]

Bandanas are wreck.

[Trey Kirby]

Sexy band.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Great. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Test. Give me a slutty male Halloween costume.

[Tas Melis]

The Dothraki from Game of Thrones.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[JD (Super Producer)]

100%.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. It could be pulled off. I mean, this. It's an older look. An older fictional look. Older. It's a lot of bodies. Body. You know, not a lot of coverage.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, there's, like, barely any.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Chest out.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Yep.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

You got the muscles for it nowadays.

[Jay Skeets]

I was gonna say, are you gonna be a horse tonight? Walking around the neighborhood?

[Tas Melis]

I should. No, I'm not. It's too cold for that. Dothrakis don't like cold. Great point. Yep.

[Jay Skeets]

Thank you. They hate it.

[Trey Kirby]

They're always in the warm land of the. The Red Waste.

[Jay Skeets]

Is that what they call.

[Trey Kirby]

Is that factoids?

[Jay Skeets]

I don't know. What was it called?

[Trey Kirby]

How many hours?

[JD (Super Producer)]

Grasslands.

[Jay Skeets]

No. Where the Dothraki live. Let's look it up.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Across the Narrow Sea. Yes, it's near. Bravos. But it's not Bravo Bra. What?

[Jay Skeets]

What is this?

[JD (Super Producer)]

Too long.

[Jay Skeets]

I don't know.

[Tas Melis]

I can't find it.

[JD (Super Producer)]

The Red Waste sounds about right.

[Tas Melis]

It's not Meepo.

[Trey Kirby]

Sounds like a good name at least.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Least?

[Trey Kirby]

J.D.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Yeah. Mine's Dothraki adjacent. It's a costume I've worn more than any other costume in my entire life because I had to wear it every Wednesday when I worked in Greece. And it's a toga, guys.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[JD (Super Producer)]

I mean, you're talking about the pirate life. Yeah, that's me on the right. They are about to rip my toga off. Am I wearing anything under that? Toga?

[Odoo Advertiser]

Toga.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Absolutely not.

[Jay Skeets]

No.

[JD (Super Producer)]

And let me tell you, every Wednesday, I would wear a toga and my junk got touched. Every Wednesday by multiple people.

[Tas Melis]

Will it. Wednesday.

[JD (Super Producer)]

And that's what we're talking about.

[Jay Skeets]

You would wear this every Wednesday? We would have to.

[JD (Super Producer)]

It was mandatory because they had a toga party at the discotheque.

[Tas Melis]

Was it mandatory to not wear underwear underneath?

[JD (Super Producer)]

Well, that was more of a tradition test. So we would never wear. I have multiple pictures of. Of, you know, that I cannot show. But. But, yeah, that's. It's the sluttiest male costume.

[Tas Melis]

It is.

[Trey Kirby]

That's good.

[Tas Melis]

It's sold everywhere.

[JD (Super Producer)]

It's the bandana for your body.

[Jay Skeets]

It's very doth rocky.

[Tas Melis]

Like totally.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, the bandana for your body. The mounted warriors in Essos. Essos, that's the continent east of Westeros.

[Tas Melis]

Knew it ended like an.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, that's rapid fire.

[Tas Melis]

Great stuff.

[Jay Skeets]

It's not so rapid, but it was rapid fire. If you enjoyed it, hit the like button. Subscribe Podcast Listeners five star ratings and reviews As I said off the top over on Substack today, we'll post it very soon. A little director's commentary of an Austin Powers themed episode of the starters from 2018 with Marvin Bagley III in an Eyepatch talking with us. So that'll be a lot of fun. We'll have some more goodies going on up on the weekend at Substack. Join that hit the link in Our show notes $5 a month troll man on Monday Trolling from under the table task will be as we do NBA Weekend winners and losers. Everybody have a safe and happy Halloween tonight. Enjoy all the games and hopefully I survive the Black Bears and I'll be back here with you guys.

[Trey Kirby]

We'll see.

[Jay Skeets]

We'll see. If I'm not here on Monday, you know what happened. Till then, Clipper Bros. You heard it here first.

[Trey Kirby]

First, have a great time.

[Jay Skeets]

Turn up. Love you guys.

[Trey Kirby]

Awesome.

[Tas Melis]

Thanks for joining us. And remember, we listen to every one of our fans comments.

[JD (Super Producer)]

Now.

[Tas Melis]

This one isn't from a fan, but I still liked it. It was someone on X about Michael Jordan's NBC segments Shahanji Aradia said opening about load management while giving NBC only one interview to use across an entire season is actually very funny. I agree. Agreed with that. It was pretty huge.

[Jay Skeets]

That is pretty good. A lot of people were also pointing out Jordan talking about load management, how he always played except for the two years where he didn't play. If they're not gonna play, take off the full season. That's MJ's stance.

[Trey Kirby]

That's right. Don't make them think you're gonna play for Synergy.

[Jay Skeets]

We'll be playing on Monday everybody. Have a great weekend. See you then. Brace the.

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[Jay Skeets]

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